This is about digital access to the original manuscript(s). 📜 torrentfreak.com/anne-frank-c...
The Dutch Supreme Court seeks EU guidance on geo-blocking and VPNs in a case involving the online publication of Anne Frank's manuscripts.
If you ever want to read an story about people moving for climate reasons, this story talking about people who moved to Asheville, NC, a listed climate haven, and having to deal with forest fires two years ago (plus the last few days) is…well.
As more people move to “climate havens” like Western North Carolina, they are learning nowhere is immune from climate concerns like wildfire.
UUK issues recommendations for UK (mainly English) university sector later this morning. Focus on 'expanding opportunities, improving collaboration, generating local growth, securing research and establishing a new global strategy for universities.' Advocates indexing tuition fees to inflation.
All the key suggestions for reform as Universities UK outlines how the sector can be put back on a firm financial footing
Why is it important to preserve forgotten books? A reflection on one of the many valuable functions of the Internet Archive. blog.archive.org/2024/09/16/v...
What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders. - There's no such thing as "learning styles".
‘Some detailed restoration work is going to be undertaken so we can stabilize it and restore it back to its original beauty.’ Neel believes her grandmother would be happy to see the pole restored, and eventually returned to public display at the museum.’ bc.ctvnews.ca/iconic-stanl...
A totem pole that was installed in Stanley Park nearly 40 years ago has been loaded onto a flat bed truck and moved to a museum for much-needed restoration work.
A study of 550 campus protests last April found that "97% of campus demonstrations over the war in Gaza that have taken place in the US since mid-April have been peaceful." www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...
Analysis of 553 protests in solidarity with Palestinians between 18 April and 3 May found 97% of them did not cause serious damage
The students at my school did this. They negotiated for it, they got it, and they're disbanding their encampment now that they're done. Not one arrest. No police. The first campus in the UC system to do it.
New: ChatGPT continues to pollute spaces where people go to acquire knowledge. ChatGPT generated books are being indexed in Google Books, and could impact Google Ngram viewer, an important tool used by researchers to track language use throughout history www.404media.co/google-books...
More staggering stats on UKHE: 25% of Russell Group/R1 income currently from Chinese student tuition 50% of all UKHE funded by int'l student tuition by 2026 (in the Guardian, terrible misleading headline I won't link)